From the Daily Cal: More than 10,000 UC student researchers, or SRs, voted in favor of authorizing a strike in the fight for recognition of their union, Student Researchers United-UAW, or SRU-UAW. Despite SRU-UAW being certified as a union by the California Public Employment Relations Board in August, the university has yet to recognize the union. The delay in recognition means SRs cannot engage in collective bargaining with the university, which would otherwise allow them to negotiate improvements in their working environment, according to the SRU-UAW website...
UC Office of the President spokesperson Ryan King said in an email they support including university-employed graduate SRs in a bargaining unit but dispute the inclusion of other SRs who have “no employment relationship with the University.” Such SRs include fellows and trainees who receive funding to participate in research that will help them toward their graduate or professional program of study or those who receive academic credit, King added in the email...
The strike authorization vote followed a Nov. 18 letter of support for the union signed by 49 California state legislators to UC President Michael Drake. Led by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, legislators urged the university to recognize the SRU-UAW. The letter cited SB 201, a law passed in 2017 that extended collective bargaining rights to all UC SRs*...
Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2021/11/22/10k-uc-student-researchers-authorize-a-strike-to-recognize-their-union/.
SB 201 can be found at:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB201.
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